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Brief mit eigenh. U. ("Sigismundus Rex").
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Welcoming Onorato Visconti, Titular Archbishop of Larissa, as the new Nuncio in Poland, in which office he served from 1630 to 1635. Sigismund, raised a Catholic, sought to ally himself with the Habsburgs (marrying two daughters of Charles II of Inner Austria) and sided with the Emperor in the Thirty Years' War. - Traces of original folds. Browned and mounted on old backing paper.